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Name- Rajeshwari Deshpande Designation- Professor, Dept of Politics and Public Administration, Savitribai Phule Pune Name- Rajeshwari Deshpande Designation- Professor, Dept of Politics and Public Administration, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Specialization- Indian Politics Political Thinking in India Contact- [email protected] Phone- 020-25690815 (O); 020-25441237 (R); 91-9922433612 (c) Educational Qualifications- B.A. (Pune) 1990; M.A.( Pune)1992; M.Phil.(Pune)1994; Ph.D. (Pune) 1996 Professional Experience- taught for three years at undergraduate level (H.V Desai College, Pune) 1994-97 Faculty, University of Pune since 1997 Research supervision: Ph. D. (completed): - two working: five M. Phil. (completed): seven working: three Teaching Experience (Subjects/Courses Taught) Constitutional Process in India, Political process in India, Modern Political Thinkers, Social and Political Movements in India, Modern Indian Political Thought, Class, Marxist Political Sociology, Women and Politics, Political Economy of India, Development Studies, Global Politics from Above and Below Research Interests- Indian Politics- politics of the poor, urban processes, caste in contemporary India, political economy of religion, comparative studies of Indian states Political Thinking in India- 19th and 20th century political thought in Maharashtra, Gandhian traditions of thought Other information- ICCR visiting professor, Rajiv Gandhi chair in Contemporary Indian Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, July- November 2014UKIERI Visiting Fellow, King’s India Institute, London, April- May 2012 Adjunct Fellow, Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, 2010- Maharashtra Foundation, USA- Fellowship for research on Maharashtra 1998-1999 Member, editorial board of the journal Asian Politics and Policy, Wiley Blackwell, Washington DC (2008-10) Member, editorial managing team, Studies in Indian Politics, Lokniti/CSDS Journal, Sage Publishers 2013- (also coordinates the forum on Teaching and Learning Politics in India in the journal) Member, Lokniti network (a nationwide network of Political Scientists in India), CSDS, Delhi – coordinates the activities of the Lokniti regional centre at Pune. Member of the NCERT textbook committee for Political Science textbook for std XII- Politics of India since Independence, 2007. Member, Interview Schedule designing Committee, National Election Studies, 2009 and 2014 Member of the committee to prepare school level encyclopedia of Civics, appointed by the textbook bureau of the Maharashtra Govt. Prepared Political Sience textbooks for the YCMOU, Nashik. Secretary, M.Phil. Committee of the Department, 2004-2010 Secretary, Student Teacher Committee of the Department, 1997-2001 Shri Yashwantrao Chavan Gold Medal of University of Pune for securing highest marks in M. A. Politics May 1992. Savitribai Phule Scholarship of Government of Maharashtra 1987-1990 (upon securing second rank in the state level merit list of the HSC examination in March 1987). Research Work Work in Progress The Gender Gap in Indian Elections: Analysis of the National Election Studies data of 1971-2014 elections in India. Changing Social Bases of Political Parties in India: Case of Maharashtra, CSSH, SPPU, 2014-15 Hamal Panchayat and TMKTPS : A comparative study of two informal sector workers’ unions, 2015-16. Completed- Comparative State Politics and Public Policy in India, Lokniti, CSDS and British Academy, 2011-2014 Comparing States: Towards a better Understanding of the Region and the Nation, Lokniti CSDS and ICSSR, New Delhi 2011-2014 The Woman Constituency: Domestic Workers, Social Security and Gender Politics in Two States, funded by the British Academy and University of Pune Political Economy of Religiosity in Contemporary India; SAP and CAS, Dept of Politics University of Pune Locating the Local Bases of Politics: Collection of District Level Sources of Political Action, BCUD, University of Pune, 2009-11 (report submitted to the BCUD). Electoral Choices and Political Opinions: Comparative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat, NES, CSDS New Delhi. (Major Research Project sanctioned by the UGC 2009-2011.)-report submitted to the UGC Role of Caste Associations in Contemporary Indian Politics, University of Pune, BCUD Research Grant, (2006-2008), report submitted, occasional paper based on the research published by the Department, a research paper published. Patterns of Generational Mobility in Pune City, Lokniti, CSDS and University of Pune, with Suhas Palshikar, 2007-08, a research article published in the EPW, March 2008. Political Mobilisation of the Urban Informal Sector Workers in Maharashtra, Special Assistance Programme, (2002-07). Trends in Political Participation among Indian Women, as part of the National Election Studies, CSDS, New Delhi, two research papers published in the EPW in 2004 and 2009. Caste-Occupation Linkages in Pune City, DSA,2002- 2003, research paper based on the findings published in 2004. Life and Politics in Pune’s Slums, DSA,2002- 2003, a research paper based on the findings was prepared. Politics of the Informal sector workers: a Case Study of Hamal Panchayat in Pune, 1998-1999, Maharashtra Foundation, USA, report submitted in May 1999. Publications- Books and Journal Articles Books 2011-Acharya Shankar Dattatraya Javadekar (Marathi), (An intellectual biography of Acharya Javadekar) Gandharvaved Prakashan, Pune. forthcoming Tillin Louise, Rajeshwari Deshpande and Kailash KK (ed), Politics of Welfare: Comparisons Across Indian States, Oxford University Press, Delhi and London, September 2015 Rajeshwari Deshpande and Suhas Palshikar (ed) Maharashtra Contextualized: Comparing Politics across Indian states (ed) with Suhas Palshikar manuscript ready for publication Sandeep Shastri and Rajeshwari Deshpande (ed) Patterns of Voting Behaviour in Indian Elections: 1996-2014 Manuscript under preparation Monographs 2010- Caste Associations in the Post-Mandal Era Notes from Maharashtra, CAS Occasional Paper Series: No. 2, Department of Politics and Public Admn, University of Pune, Pune. 2008- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Caste Groups: A Study of Pune City, with Suhas Palshikar, Report of the CSSH project 2005-State and Democracy in India: Strategies of Accommodation and Manipulation, Occasional Paper, series III, no.4, Dept of Politics, University of Pune, August 2003- Informal Sector Workers in Pune City: Four Narratives, DSA, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune. 2001- Pune: from City to metropolis, Exploratory study no 1, DSA, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune. Research Articles in Books Published 2014-‘Bhagwangadavarun Mala Mumbai Disate Aahe’: How Caste Survives Amidst Democratic Politics, in Dusan Deak and Daniel Thorner (ed), RethinkingWestern India: The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion, Orient Blackswan, Delhi 2014- Lokshahiche Bhan, Janandolane ani Stree Chalwal, (Marathi- Awareness of Democracy, Agitational Politics and Women’s Movement) in Vandana Bhagwat, Anil Sapkal and Geetali V M (ed), Sandharbhasahit Streevad , Shabd Publication, Borivali, pp 124-130. 2014-Tokdar Jaat Asmitanche Rajkaran (Marathi- Caste identities in Indian Politics) in Uttam Kamble (ed), Jaagtikikarnatil Sanskriti Sangharsh, Pune Sugawa Prakashan 2013- Who Does Not Want Pune to Become Singapore? Politics of development in an Emerging Metropolis, in Ian Shirley and others (ed.), Asian and Pacific Cities : Development patterns, pp 138-150, Routledge, London. 2012-Getting Elected: New Institutional mechanisms and Issues related to Women’s Representation in Indian Federalism, in Shaun Haulin and others (ed) Ethnicity, Diversity and Equality and Unity in Diversity for Development: proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Federalism, Forum of Federations, Quebec. 2012- Samkaleen Dharmakaran ani Artha Rajkiya Tanebane (Marathi- Contemporary Religiosity and the politico-economic complexities), introduction in Unique Features, Devachya Navane ( Marathi, In the Name of God), pp 16-24, Samkaleen Prakashan, Pune 2010-Garv Se Kahon Hum Lingayat Hain!: Caste Associations and Identity Politics in Maharshtra, in Ashutosh Kumar (ed.) Regions within Regions: Understanding State politics in India, Orient Longman. 2010- The Missing Women: Gender Representation in Indian Politics, in Ajay Mehra (ed.), Emerging Trends in Indian Politics the 15th General Elections, Routledge, New Delhi pp 217-238. 2010- Jagatikikarn, Lokshahi ani Garibanche Rajkaran (Marathi-Globalization, Democracy and Politics of the Poor) in Uttam Kamble (ed) Jagtikikaranchi Arishte ( the Globalization Crisis), Lokvangmaya Griha, Mumbai, pp 195-206. 2008- Bhakti Marg Becomes Shakti Marg: Tale of A Devsthan in Maharashtra, with Suhas Palshikar, in M. Naito and others (ed.), Marg: Ways of Liberation, Empowerment and Social Change in Maharashtra, Manohar, New Delhi, pp 357-380. 2007- Congress, in Suhas Palshikar and Suhas Kulkarni (ed.), Maharashtratil Sattasngharsha: Rajkiya Pakshanchi Vatchal ( Marathi- the Power Play in Maharashtra), Samkaaleen Prakashan, Pune pp22-48. 2006- Vanchitanchya Chalwaliche Yashapayash, (Marathi- The Social Movements of the Marginalized: Successes and Failures) in Kishor Bedkihal and Bhaskar Bholy (ed.) Shatkantarachya Valnavar, Dr Ambedkar Academy, Satara, pp 96-112 2004-Inevitability and Inadequacy of Caste: Some Dilemmas for Mobilisation of Backward Classes, in B.V.Bhosale( ed), Mobilisation of Backward Communities in India, Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi, pp 200-216 2004- Social Movements in Crisis? in Rajendra Vora and
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